Here, it will be divided into three chapters: texture and color, body color and tail fin, to briefly discuss the species classification of mainstream guppies appearing in the aquarium market.
1. Textures and colors
■ Mosaic peacock fish (mosaic)
The original text of mosaic refers to "articles made of fine work". Here, however, it describes many colors and patterns at the tail of guppy. There are two patterns of mosaic peacock: one is mosaic pattern, and the other is slightly circular pattern.
The characteristics of mosaic peacock: there is a "dark blue" color block at the junction of tail fin base and body, which can also be used to distinguish it from grass-tailed peacock. This is a Japanese division, but now I basically don't care about it.
The standard requirements for mosaic peacocks are: the tail fin lines are bright, the wider the dorsal fin, the better, and the lines are best consistent with the tail fin.
■ Grass peacock is a species artificially improved by Japanese aquarium experts. Peacock with grass tail can be divided into two types according to the color of tail fin: one is the grass tail with standard tail fin, and the background color is informal; The other is the glass tail, which is more transparent, so the spots on it are like spray spots, and the hazy beauty is like "sari". The characteristics of Grass-tailed peacocks are: the broad tail fin is covered with tiny black spots, and the pattern is as fine as grass (this is actually a mistake, it is a name born by Japanese translation misunderstanding, and it should be Glass tail in Europe and America, but the loanwords of Glass and grass in Japanese are the same word ... so if you turn to Chinese again, it will be worse). The standard requirements of grass-tailed peacocks: the tail fin must be wide, the dorsal fin is the same, and it must have a thick feeling, and the pattern should be consistent with the tail fin. The diamonds and black spots on the fish are clear and beautiful in shape, and the patterns on the tail are not connected with each other, so they are sprayed.
■ Tuxedo dress means that the second half of the peacock fish is black, dark blue or other pure colors such as pink and sky blue, but there should be no mottled spots or patterns on the tail fin, and the overall feeling is elegant and generous, such as the beauty in the evening dress. The characteristics of dress peacock: the tail fin is wider and longer than other strains of peacock fish. The standard requirements of peacock dress: the color of tail fin should be uniform, absolutely not mixed with any spots or patterns, and the overall color should be single and pure. This is the most popular German yellow dress, with a black waist and a white or yellow tail (the white tail is called ivory white-cultivated in Germany, and the yellow one is called taxi yellow-cultivated in the United States). Japanese blue dresses are rarely seen, and Japanese blue peacocks and Japanese blue grass tails appear, so it should not be regarded as Japanese blue dresses, pink dresses and pink dresses on the waist.
Black dress
■ King Cobra The body of King Cobra is covered with patterns composed of complex lines, which looks like the skin markings of snakes. The overall lines are very similar to those of Mosaic Peacock, Lace Peacock and Grass-tail Peacock, but the lines of the tail are thinner than Mosaic and coarser than Lace, and the grass-tail spots are very small and not connected. The characteristics of the peacock king snake: the color of the fish body surface is blue, green and other metallic colors, with fine patterns, which are extremely eye-catching. The red lace snake king actually refers to lace. The difference between lace and snake king is whether the lines of the tail are meticulous or not, and the rough one is the snake king Metal lace ■ Metal peacock fish is a fascinating species artificially improved by geneticists in the former Soviet Union, which was not known to the world until after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It can be said that it is a late-maturing species, but as a limited heritage of Y gene, charming metal spots have added a lot of vitality to the peacock world. Characteristics of metallic peacock: The first half of the fish body presents a special metallic blue. When the water quality is not good or the fish is unwell, this metallic blue color block will turn black to remind the breeder to pay attention. all-metal
There is a species called Medusa derived from the metal of Galaxy and Medusa, and there is another species very close to Medusa called Galaxy. What is the difference between Galaxy and Medusa? Medusa precedes the Galaxy. Medusa may be the work of Mr. Yasuo Otani, but I can't guarantee it. Whose work is the Milky Way? It is not clear. According to the net post of Taiwan Province Xuema, Medusa and Yinhe are not named after the traditional Japanese naming method. Medusa is the name of a goddess in Greek mythology. This goddess has peerless beauty. All men can't help but look up at each other when they see her beauty, but once they are opposite to her soul-chasing eyes, men will turn to stone. I think the author of this fish must think it is very beautiful, so he borrowed the name of Medusa to name it. At that time, there were two schools of players in Japan (even if we listened to it, we don't have to be serious). Soon after this school published Medusa, the other school also made fish with similar characteristics. In order to compete and be different, it was published under the name of Yinhe. Of course, there is also an intention to use the image of the Milky Way to illustrate the characteristics of fish. Genetically, these two kinds of fish are really similar. It is pointed out in the article that the formula of guppies is published that there are three gene combinations in Medusa and two gene combinations in Galaxy. The above five combinations of medusa aneuploid {｛XLYPYC｝} medusa normal {｛XYPC｝} coral medusa normal {xy (co) c} galaxy aneuploid {｛XCYPYC｝} galaxy normal {｛XCYPC｝} are all about gene combinations on male fish sex chromosomes. P refers to platinum, C refers to snake king, L refers to leisi, and CO refers to coral. It can be seen that Medusa has a lace gene, so the lines of its tail are relatively thin, and many Medusa have a piano tail (that is, the tail is hollow) and the Milky Way has a snake gene, so its tail is snake-shaped and relatively rough. The medusa galaxy is like this
Sally is also very beautiful. Look at a picture of Medusa and observe carefully the difference between it and the Milky Way. Look at a blue Milky Way and pay attention to its tail lines.
■ Standard requirements for Solid peacock: Of course, the color of the fish is clean and does not contain any variegated colors. Monochrome peacocks are represented by Moskville and Quanhong. The former is also a variety mutated by Russians in the laboratory, while the latter has multiple strains with complicated genes, which will be specially introduced in future articles. There are pure white gold and gold, and this is the masterpiece of the Germans. First look at Moscow orchid, then look at all red, and gold and its mother fish are also very beautiful, and platinum is not bad.
■ Sword Tail Peacock's characteristics: It means that the tail fin extends straight like a sword, and it can be divided into different forms according to the extended parts, such as double sword tail, upper sword tail, lower sword tail and so on. The standard requirements of peacock with sword tail: the end of sword tail is sharp, the body color texture is natural, and it has the original flavor of nature. Especially that coral double sword represen by Andras double sword and Vienna emerald double sword.
■ Old Fashion The old peacock does not refer to the original ancient peacock species, but is a new strain of peacock. The characteristics of ancient peacocks are: the tail fin has mosaic-like markings, but the lines are vague, while the fish surface has snake-like lines, but it is not as convex as snake lines, but has a concave feeling.
Second, the body color ■ According to the body color of guppy, it can be divided into: 1. Gray Type: also known as general type, that is, the most common and common body color, that is, roughly the same body color as the wild guppy. 2. Golden Type: The whole body of the fish has a yellow background color, especially the top of the head has no black spots that the wild guppies have. 3. WhiteType: The fish body is white and slightly transparent, and the whole body is plain and clean without any melanin. The fish body is decorated with plain markings such as light blue and light red, which is particularly elegant. 4. Bai Zi type: The background color of the fish is transparent, with no black body and dark red eyes. 5. Albino White Zi: The background color of the fish is transparent snow white, with no melanin in the whole body and red eyes. 6. Zhen Hong's eye albino: The background color of the fish is transparent light yellow, with no melanin in the whole body and red eyes. 7. Tiger: It is very similar to the wild guppies, but the scales of the fish body have special changes, and the edges of the scales seem to be inlaid with black lines, and the overall appreciation is like tiger skin lines. 8. Blue: The fish has a special blue-green hue, but this kind of guppies is rarely seen, so it is often ignored. 9. Pink: The fish has a bright pink color. The above body colors may also coexist, such as Golden Pink, which is artificially improved and has different body colors at the same time. Third, the caudal fin ■ According to the shape of the guppy caudal fin, it can be divided into: 1. Delta Form: if the caudal fin is triangular, the greater the clamping angle, the better, and the upper and lower ends of the fin edge are acute. 2. Fam Tail: The shape of the tail fin is similar to a triangle, and the larger the clamping angle, the better. The upper and lower ends of the fin edge are circular arcs. 3. Bottom Sword: In normal state, the bottom of the tail fin extends like a swordfish. 4. Top Sword: In the normal state, a part of the fin edge extends from the upper part of the tail fin. 5. Double Sword: In the normal state, the upper and lower parts of the tail fin each extend a part of the fin edge. 6. Pin Tail: In the normal state, a part of the fin edge extends from the center of the caudal fin. 7. Round Tail: the most traditional and common tail type. 8. Lyre Tail: It has a triangular tail and a fan tail or a round tail, or a combination of a double sword tail and a round tail. 9. Swallow: There are many fins extending at the tail end, and the number and position are different. 10. Ribbon: It belongs to the tail type with sudden variation. ■ According to the color of guppy tail fin, it can be divided into: solid color system: 1. Red. 2. Blue. 3. Yellow. 4. Black. Multicolor system: 1. Mosaic: It can be divided into red-tailed mosaic, blue-tailed mosaic, yellow-tailed mosaic and so on according to different colors. 2. Grass tail: It can be divided into red grass tail, blue grass tail, yellow grass tail and so on according to the different colors. 3. Leopard. The classification of guppies is roughly based on the above three species. However, if these three methods are combined to define and classify a guppy strain, it should be named one by one from head to tail according to different characteristics. For example, the names of peacock fish, such as the metal snake peacock, the red-tailed mosaic peacock and the yellow-tailed dress ribbon peacock, come from this. The above is a simple classification of common guppies, and friends who are new to fish strain classification will still feel a little confused. In fact, these classifications are divided according to the types of genetic genes that guppies can show different characteristics. These types include: tail patterns: mosaic, grass tail, plain tail and lace tail colors: red tail, blue tail, black tail, white tail, yellow tail, green tail and sky blue tail. . . Tail shape: triangular tail, fan tail, double sword tail, upper sword tail, lower sword tail, dovetail, shovel tail and middle tail. Body pattern: snake pattern, ancient strain, Vienna emerald, dress, leopard pattern, metal platinum, coral and Japanese blue. Mixed body pattern: Medusa, coral Medusa, Galaxy, Platinum Japan Blue and Santa Maria Snake King. . . These are some stable genotypes that are recognized now, but they are still developing. What is new is not clear to me now. Naming is done in the order of head-front of body-back of body-tail. For fish with multiple gene expressions, sometimes the names of the weaker genes are omitted.